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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:34:25 +0000
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 5:21:02 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 16:55:44 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>
>> With pages you can swap parts of a segment (page at a time)
>> with segmentation (only) you cannot swap parts of the segment.
>
> Mixing the two seems counterproductive, unless you have few, large
> segments. Burroughs-style segments were smaller and more numerous than
> that.

I am not a fan of segmentation, I was responding to a direct question
where someone was actively trying to misinterpret what I wrote.

Paging won, just like LE won. Time to get over it.